Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory

and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern

novel its structure and style ?

AThomas Gray

BRichard Brinsley Sheridan

CJohathan Swift

DHenry Fielding

答案是： Henry Fielding

Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs.

Warren’s profession then ?

AReal estate.

BProstitution.

CHouse-keeping.

DFarming.

答案是： Prostitution.

Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century

literature?

AFriedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"

BArther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of

irrationality.

COscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".

DFreudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

答案是： Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".

It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a

comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole

gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

AGeoffrey Chaucer

BMartin Luther

CWilliam Langland

DJohn Gower

答案是： Geoffrey Chaucer

The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,

which one of the following is NOT such an event ?

AThe rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

BEngland’s domestic rest.

CNew discovery in geography and astrology.

DThe religious reformation and the economic expansion.

答案是： England’s domestic rest.

The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American

literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of

____________.

Athe 17th century … the American War of Independence

Bthe 18th century … the American Civil War

Cthe 17th century … the American Civil War

Dthe 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War

答案是： the 18th century … the American Civil War

Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for

and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

Aimmortality

Bpolitical

Cmoney

Dknowledge

答案是： knowledge

The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .

Amystery of the universe

Bsin of the whale

Cpower of the Great Nature

Devil of the world

答案是： sin of the whale

______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best

classic style that American Literature ever produced”.

AEdgar Ellen Poe

BWalt Whitman

CHenry David Thoreau

DWashington Irving

答案是： Washington Irving

In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western

empires and

the moral and social chaos of the modern world .

AMake It New

BThe Cantos

CPolite Essays

答案是： The Cantos

Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce

rationalism to England ?

AJohn Bunyan

BDaniel Defoe

CAlexander Pope

DJonathan Swift

答案是： Alexander Pope

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays

man as ________.

Abeing hereditarily either good or bad

Bbeing self-sufficient

Chaving no control over his own fate

Dstill retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

答案是： having no control over his own fate

Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?

APound

BEliot

CFrost

答案是： Eliot

The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with

caves of ice," are found in __________.

ASamuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"

BWilliam Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"

CJohn Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"

DPercy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"

答案是： Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"

Le More D’ Arthur is an important landmark in the development of English prose for

its

Alucid style

Bverbose style

Ccomplicate style

Dornate style

答案是： lucid style

One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is

_____.

ALin Yutang

BSui Sin Far

CMaxine Hong Kingston

答案是： Sui Sin Far

Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ______ .

Abeing polished and graceful

Black of concision

Cmassive detailed description

答案是： being polished and graceful

_______ believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important .

APuritans

Brealists

CTranscendentalists

答案是： Transcendentalists

The pair not correctly associated is

ABlake-engraver

BGoldsmith-poem

CFielding-playwright

DRichardson-essayist

答案是： Richardson-essayist

The character that appears in The Red Badge of Courage is ______.

AHurstwood

BDrouet

CFleming

答案是： Fleming

Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and ______ .

AThe Tycoon

BThe Giant

CThe Stoic

答案是： The Stoic

the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .

Aballad

Bsonnet

Cheroic couplet

DSpenserian stanza

答案是： ballad

______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .

AHemingway

BFitzgerald

CSteinbeck

答案是： Fitzgerald

In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence

of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?

AMore time to play

BMore food to eat

CMore books to read

DMore money to spend

答案是： More food to eat

If Winter comes ， can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by____.

AJ ． Keats

BW ． Blake

CW. Wordsworth

DP.B ． Shelley

答案是： P.B ． Shelley

Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?

AIrving

BCooper

CMelville

答案是： Cooper

“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s

______________.

Asensitive ear for the sounds of the English language

Bexcellent choice of words

Cmastering of the metrical devices

Duse of the dramatic monologue

答案是： use of the dramatic monologue

The statement"Studies serve for delight ， for ornament ， and for ability”opens one of

well-known essays by____.

AFrancis Bacon

BSamuel Johnson

CAlexander Pope

DJonathan Swift

答案是： Francis Bacon

“Drive my dead thought over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?

ASynecdoche.

BMetaphor.

CSimile.

DOnomatopoeia.

答案是： Simile.

In Hawthorne‘s "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous

protagonist to a witches‘ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars

of Salem‘s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates

Hawthorne‘s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power

of _______ ."

Ablackness

Bwhiteness

Cterror

Dhypocrisy

答案是： blackness

Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according

to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the

vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.

Aplanning a revolt to dethrone God

Bmisinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature

Cprophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season

Dstealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man

答案是： stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man

The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginning line of one

of Shakespeare’s .

Acomedies

Btragedies

Chistories

Dsonnets

答案是： sonnets

It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.

Achildhood recollections

Bsketches about his European tours

Cearly poetry

Dtales about America

答案是： tales about America

“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part

of the quotation from

AThe Forsyte Saga

BJude the Obscure

CThe picture of Dorian Gray

DTess of D’ Urbervilles

答案是： Tess of D’ Urbervilles

Emily Dickinson‘s poem （ 441 ） "This is my letter to the World" expresses the

poet‘s _______ about her

communication with the outside world.

Aindifference

Bjoy

Canxiety

Dindignation

答案是： anxiety

" ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his

seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d

expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken

must be _________.

AJane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

BCharles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

CSamuel Richardson’s Pamela

DEmily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

答案是： Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking

for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room

...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?

AMore time to play.

BMore food to eat.

CMore book to read.

DMore money to spend.

答案是： More food to eat.

The one of the following not known as a dramatist is _______ .

AMiller

BPound

CO‘Neill

答案是： Pound

Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about ______ in

America .

AChinese immigrants

BChinese students

CAsian immigrants

答案是： Chinese immigrants

The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.

Abitter satire

Blarger-than-life caricature

CLatinized diction

Ddramatic monologue

答案是： dramatic monologue

For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______

despite its

narrative power .

Asuccess

Bfailure

Cmiracle

答案是： miracle

“Come to me － come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest

tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness － I

will make yours.”

The above passage presents a scene in .

AEmily Bronte’s Withering Heights

BCharlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

CJohn Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga

DThomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles

答案是： Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century

American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the

_______ movement.

Atranscendental

Bleftist

Cexpatriate

Dexpressionistic

答案是： expatriate

The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______

period .

Amodern

Bnaturalist

Cromantic

答案是： romantic

The publication of _______ established Emerson as the spokesman of

Transcendentalism .

ANature

BSelf—reliance

CThe American Scholar

答案是： Nature

Richardson was noted as story-telling , letter writer and a

Acritic

Bmoralizer

Cpoet

Dplaywright

答案是： moralizer

All of the following are written by Hemingway except _______ .

AThe Sun Also Rises

BFor Whom the Bell Tolls

CSartoris

答案是： Sartoris

Dickinson’s poems include poems of _________.

Anature

Blove

Cdeath

Dall the above

答案是： all the above

Most of ______ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern

subjects

and consciousness .

AHemingway‘s

BFitzgerald‘s

CFaulkner‘s

答案是： Faulkner‘s

Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for ______ .

ARip‘s escape into the mountain

BRip‘s seeking for happiness

CRip‘s 20–year sleep

答案是： Rip‘s 20–year sleep

John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of____.

Aallegory

Bromance

Cepic in prose

Dfable

答案是： allegory

(The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in

the 18th century ．

ARomandcism

BHumanism

CEnlightenment

DSentimentalism

答案是： Enlightenment

“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book

AHeroes and Hero-worship

BThe French Revolution

CA Modern Comedy

DLife of Schiller

答案是： Heroes and Hero-worship

Irving was regarded as ______ .

Afather of American drama

Bfather of American poetry

Cfather of American Literature

答案是： father of American Literature

Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical

Amysticism

Bromanticism